One of my favorite sayings: "Anything free is worth what you pay for it."
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Kevin Powick <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wednesday, 28 November 2012 15:16:43 UTC-5, NebulaTonyG wrote: > > >> >> ...the SSHD accepts a connection on port X >> and then transfers that to port Y, but that's not so much "port >> forwarding" or tunneling, that's what an SSHD does. >> > > LOL. What does that even mean? > > > >> Regarding Bitvise - yeah it's great but the Cygwin solution is too, >> and it's free > > > A favorite saying comes to mind, "*nix is only free if your time is > worthless." > > and has more feature > > > Such as? > > and takes the same amount of time to setup. > > > Maybe for someone that's used both before and understands tunnelling and > port forwarding. > > I found it dirt-simple to >> install and there's even a MSI installer which does all of the initial >> setup in the same number of clicks as Bitvise. > > > You've counted the clicks? And once installed, are you saying that you're > good to go with a fully configured SSH solution? What a load of misleading > advertising. > > For laughs, I downloaded the latest version of Cygwin, ran the installer > and immediately found myself asking, "now what", as I had to make decisions > on choosing which packages to download. So, I play it safe and go for the > default install (from Internet). After adding over 100MB of files to my > disk, of which about 25MB can be deleted from original package downloads > folder, I have an icon on the desktop for Cygwin. > > Click on that magic Cygwin icon and I get.. Wait for it. A command > prompt. Yeah, I'm almost there with a SSH server set-up. > > I won't attempt to dispute that the Cygwin solution can work, eventually, > but to say it's even remotely similar and easy to set-up as a dedicated SSH > product like Bitvise is outlandish. > > Time is money my friend. Less than $100 for Bitvise is a good investment, > IMO. > > -- > Kevin Powick > > > -- > -- > IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum. > > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en > > > > -- -- IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum. To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en
